Girl's farts smell like roses and when they on the toilets for the heavy duty, it's flowers and soap bubbles. If you kiss them, you can catch the babies. Full Comment>>

Attention. After-effects of talking to girls can lead to an outbreak of babies and hairs in your shower sink. Full Comment>>

What kind of soft-power is projecting the copy of whole Europeans village, down to the individual houses ? China does not have confidence in its *own* culture. As said above, many Chinese don't know their own culture and country very well. And that's a pity, there is much to it. They could clone those magnificent ... Full Comment>>

Air purifiers run on electricity. In China, electricity is mostly by burning coal without things like sulphur removal. So if purifier usage become widespread, it will make the air little bit worse, impacting a little bit more those who can't afford a purifier... Full Comment>>

I can't agree with the "You're a guest, so just shut-up if you have anything negative to say". When you look at China's life from a *Chinese* (but honest, non-self-serving) point of view, things are not pretty. Shutting up about anything political or negative is precisely what's keeping the life of most ... Full Comment>>

Makes me think of those phones I saw in the countryside, made of golden plastic. It's like one of those countryside folks got rich and decided to upgrade the golden plastic, not his cultural education. Full Comment>>

Fun fact : you can cheat a polygraph with a bit of training and preparation. http://www.wikihow.com/Cheat-a-Polygraph-Test-%28Lie-Detector%29 Also, using beta-blockers helps a lot. Aldrich Ames, a double agent back in the 80's, managed to cheat a polygraph testing. Copied from Wikipedia entry for Aldrich Ames [In ... Full Comment>>

Ha ha, maybe her mom gave a helping hand there too ^^ Full Comment>>

You would be surprised by what a passenger can gather. Discretely scratching various parts of the plane can gather minute amount of materials under the nails. Even very small samples gathered that way can tell you which materials are used in various parts. For a suborbital plane, the trajectory is of uttermost ... Full Comment>>

I agree with your rant, that is sad state of things. However... The site shows translations of Chinese news items. Of course, most of the readers are not Chinese, so your rant is quixotic, really. Are you 100% sure about who run this website ? Maybe the website is funded by its job & market section, and the news ... Full Comment>>

I think it's more a case of bad English (associated with "why checking the grammar, who cares") and lack of tact/cultural awareness than genuine racism. Sloppy, no tact, but wants a lot of face... Full Comment>>

Yeah, right, are you saying that 1.3 billions people are as guilty as *that* guy ? Because one guy in, say Austria, did something horrible, I should deduce all Austrian are horrible ? Full Comment>>

People get old, old people can't work, yet they still need to eat and be cared for :p China's age pyramid is scary, a "granny-boom" is coming. If half of the population can not work, how the economy can work ? How the retirement pensions are going to get paid ? You need young people to work... I think that ... Full Comment>>

Between being honest and facing his parents, he prefers to pay and fake the whole thing. Rather than facing an issue, just pay to hide it and pretend everybody's happy. Full Comment>>

"No, there is no real estate bubble in China. You don't understand China, things work differently here" - Yeah, right :p Full Comment>>

Meanwhile, in Sichuanese mountains... very backward schools for children, with close to nothing, 1950 style. Chinese Dream stops at the city gates ? Full Comment>>

China 2024. All wealthy people live in air-tights climatized dwellings, breathing purified air. The common people breath an awful air, even wearing the masks distributed by the gouvernement. Meanwhile, polluting energy production and factories keep polluting without serious attempts at changing things : any change ... Full Comment>>

I hope they got those who employ the illegals migrants too... Full Comment>>

That's quite a change in style. It's a communication operation, but at least it shows that the CCP feels like connecting a bit with the people. The attitude of the patrons, flocking to the shop because Xi was there, errr, I want to say "typical" very loudly ^^ Full Comment>>

Errr, drunken morons, borderline xenophobic public opinion, a match made in heaven. Okay, the guy is really a moron, I won't blame the victim >_< Full Comment>>

I live in Suzhou for 3 years now. I don't hang out in expat bars, mainly due to my heavy work schedule. Moon Harbor, I often walk or run there, always a desert since 3 years (and they build more offices and shopping area, while the existing ones are empty since years, WTF ?). Agree, Time Square can be gorgeous, yet ... Full Comment>>

I checked the actual study on ECA website... It s for the cost for an expat sent by his/her company. Top cities are Caracas, Juba, Luanda...where the locals level of life is fairly low, under a crisis, etc... So some of those top cities are not expensive, but are places where recreating a Western expat bubble going ... Full Comment>>

Hey, back in the days, in Southern USA, they would have said the same thing about the term 'nigger' : you have poor education, you don't understand, it's how we do it here, etc. I do not use racial slur ever myself. 'chink', 'nigger', yup, it's offensive and I understand very well why. Here, I mention the term ... Full Comment>>

Pfffuuuu, problem solved ! We can now keep heating our non-insulated rooms using unfiltered coal-made electric power, the wind will wipe it. Full Comment>>

Nigger was a standard term too. Full Comment>>